Theresa May looked 17-year-old Kenny Imafidon straight in the eye. She was nodding and ‘genuinely taking in my words’ as he shared his ideas on how to reduce youth violence and knife crime. Imafidon had been a prefect, an A-Level student with a robust CV of political work experience, including this presentation to the then home secretary. He was also, his new book That Peckham Boy details, a drug dealer, just as likely to be carrying ‘a hundred grams of weed’ in his backpack as his philosophy and history books.
Does the former prime minister know about this paradox? I ask as I sit across from the 30-year-old entrepreneur, social commentator — and now author — in the lobby of a London Bridge hotel. ‘No... I think that’s the beauty, that nobody knew. I was trying to have it all!’
